Vipassana us powerful. when did you do it?

Bro, I listened to the same meditation on Insight Timer today 🥹

If you can't love yourself first you can't love others.

Rick Ruben is legend

Vipassana 🌿

Vipassana Meditation

Homepage of Vipassana Meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin

May I be aware of my true nature May I be free from the tyranny of my ego May I be peaceful in the midst of inner turmoil May I be transformed by the power of self-observation

“I is of the devil”, that’s an Egyptian saying. Some people never say “I” in Arabic and seek refuge in God if they have to say it (to be humble) and I avoid using it when possible (had to type it otherwise it wouldn’t have made sense).

love this! ❤️

interesting!

Blessings accepted Blessings received

Believe this is from Rick Ruben. Something that I say to myself every now and again (I need to do more of) View quoted note →

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You still doing vipassana? Whats your practice been like lately?

I am loving kindness

Odd … shared this old writing ✍️ earlier elsewhere. Those who see I as oneness of everything may be misunderstood. Humans always lost in translation. 😂

The Four Immeasurables prayer is a Buddhist prayer that includes the following phrases: "May all beings have happiness and the causes of happiness" "May all beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering" "May all beings never be separate from the supreme joy that is beyond all sorrow" "May all beings abide in equanimity free from attachment and aversion" The prayer is meant to be an aspirational practice that can be developed through chanting and applied to the mind and speech. The practice is intended to help people develop loving-kindness, which can be expanded from loving only oneself and close friends and family to a more profound and vast love.

Facts and well sed jack

This is your bestest post ever

Your alright. 🤙🏻

Big hug, Jack! ❤️‍🔥🫂🌹🕊️🧿

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Wonderful! Love it

"To able to say I love you one must first be able to say I." Ayn Rand

Thinking about doing a retreat in Sedona AZ. Anyone on here have a recommendation?

Anicca 💚

Boddhisatva is such a beautiful idea. I'm also on the path. Wish you the best, it's truly an incredible thing. Buddhism is an incredible philosophy that maybe might play a more important role in the future than maybe we think. Buddhism is absolutely not trivial and in my perspective contains the absolute elixir, juice, gist, core of all truly important philosophical, psychological, moral, ethical, spiritual and just overall human learnings of our common history until now. In my opinion, our current time shows that it's really really hard to live without a common/regular/organized philosophy, religion, morality, etc, and in the absence of an organized/common philosophy/religion, people will just create a new one. It's kind of like if we're hardwired for community and philosophy/religions are the wires of that connection. It's going to be inevitable. And that's very important. We need to recognize this as humans. Aristotle was talking about this in Politics 2500 years ago, i.e we're hardwired for politics (culture, morality, etc), or in other words humans will only be truly happy in a community (a polis). And that implies that we'll need some sort of binding culture, etc. And they had many gods, virtues, etc. And thus we will most likely have to prepare ourselves spiritually also. Depending on how one thinks about spirituality and the world for that matter. And anyways, maybe Buddhism could help us define or be the base of that common philosophy/morality. One interesting thing is that it's an incredible lean philosophy and one that a lot of people have or use with something else. It doesn't have/need god, it's not theistic, etc, it's just a philosophy. And simultaneously it has very well defined moral principles. It's really very beautiful in my opinion.

I was at an ayahuasca retreat and just as the ceremony was coming to an end, I “heard” the following in the back of my mind I am You You are Me We are God. It really was a life changing experience and whenever I feel down or like I’m losing my way again, I say this a few times to remember I’m not alone.

“May all beings” - isn’t it better?

Post-Truth homunculus 🤡

“we” = you & me.☀️🌬️🌳🍂✨💋🦁🫂❤️‍🔥

I think a part of loving kindness meditation is feeling it for others, so I am wishing love and kindness on you, friend. 🫂

I hope you mean us.

Sadhu

I’ve been exploring different types of meditation. Zen (zazen) was something I started with and do daily. It's the simplest way to let thoughts pass in acceptance and find a point of focus like breathing. Another one I love are daily walks - a diff kind of mental switch off and clarity. I grew up with spiritual meditation on bible verses, something I did during my teenage years. The one I could not do was object-focused meditation. I attended a retreat in India once, to an ashram in a French colonial place. It was beautiful, in a high spot with a perfect setting of sunlight striking in the middle but I could not find my center. I am currently appreciating metta (loving - kindness) as it's likely where i am in my journey and current headspace of peace, self growth and love. It sets a foundation of compassion that overcomes inner conflict, which is crucial before extending that warmth and kindness to the world. The meditation journey it interesting - for me what I love is emptying my brain and finding a deep sense of calmness and clarity, but I am still a beginner in this. I think different people have different ways of benefiting from it. @daniele has shared a complex book on it and always reminds me of different meditation practices at different points of my life this past year which I deeply appreciate although I am not at that level yet :) View quoted note →

First I Then someone you love Then someone indifferent Then someone you have problems with Finally all human beings

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